A peculiar OTA scan issue finally fixed

[Radioguy41]

I have a VIP211K and since the "upgrade" that was pushed down several weeks ago I've had a weird issue with OTA. I can tell it to scan locals and I get 68 channels. Our primary PBS is ch 39 and ch 39 shows in the guide but if I go to it I get a blank screen and the message pops up saying no signal. This is only on the 211K, every other tuner locks it in fine at 80%.

So after tinkering and rescanning off and on for the past few weeks I hit on a fix today. First I had to find what the actual transmission ch was and it turned out to be ch 9. I went into setup but instead of scanning I selected to add a channel. I then selected ch 9 and let it find whatever it was going to find. The strength bar finally rolled out so I hit "Done", it saved it and lo & behold I finally have ch 39 back even though it said it found ch 69. This fix also worked on the wife's 211K. Go figure.

 

[mwdxer1]

That is interesting, as my 211k always finds the right channels. Never had that issue.
channel 2 (Translator 26) scans in at 2.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 The same is true on the other ones as the translators are all on UHF and most of the channels being broadcast use their original 2/6/8/10/12 channels. Only one is UHF 49 (21 translator).